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BBC: Illuminati III Murdered by The Monarchs

The Illuminati Volume 3: Murdered by the Monarchy is the latest release from Enigma Motion Pictures.It takes a long hard look at the gruesome history of the ‘Royals’ and shows how they bludgeoned, murdered and tortured their way to power.It also looks at events surrounding Princess Diana’s untimely death and reveals information the Royals would rather stay hidden. After seeing this film ‘Royal’ is the last word you’ll use to describe them.

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BBC: A Company Of Soldiers (2004)

” In “A Company of Soldiers,” Frontline reports from inside the U.S. Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Baghdad for an up-close, intimate look at the dangers facing an American military unit in Iraq. Shot in the weeks following the U.S. presidential election, the film tracks the day-to-day challenges facing the 8th Cavalry’s Dog Company as it suddenly has to cope with a dramatic increase in attacks by insurgents.”

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BBC: 100 Greatest Discoveries - Astronomy

Scientists have transformed the way we think and live throughout the centuries.What are the most important scientific discoveries of all time? In no particular order, we present the top 100 in eight different categories.Firstly we bring you the 100 Greatest Discoveries in the Astronomy where Copernicus first theorized that the Sun was the center of our solar system, but it took the work of Johannes Kepler to prove it.Learn why the universe is expanding and meet modern astronomers who gauge the likelihood of life “out there.”

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BBC: The Seven Sins Of England

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In The Seven Sins of England, real-life hoodies, binge-drinkers and chavs deliver the authentic words of 11th century binge-drinkers, Edwardian yobs, Elizabethan xenophobes and 17th-century hooligans in this recreation of historical ‘chavvery’.

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BBC: The Illusion of reality

In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn’t empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality.Al-Khalili also shows how the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder universe than which we could have conceived.

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BBC: Decoding The Past - Secrets Of The Dollar Bill

The dollar bill is more than a piece of currency.It holds a historical record of the patriotic ideals that America’s early leaders held dear.Also, the face of the bill holds more dubious symbols and examples of numerology.DECODING THE PAST interviews experts to learn about the significance of these varied symbols.See how the dollar bill has changed throughout the years and go inside the Treasury’s Department of Printing and Engraving to meet the people that process the national currency.It may be “just a buck”, but it possess a much richer past.

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BBC: Murder of Princess Diana

The death of Princess Diana may have its nexus more to the ambulance ride and the treatment during that ride than to the accident itself.With billions of people throughout the planet interested in her death and the cause thereof, it is a deep mystery of why the focus of investigators and media circumvent this critical area of inquiry, which paradoxically seemed to be a mystery to the French Interior Minister and the Police Chief of Paris as well.

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BBC: History of Hacking

Hacking is not limited to computers.The real meaning of hacking is to expand the capabilities of any electronic device; to use them beyond the original intentions of the manufacturer.As a matter of fact, the first hackers appeared in the 1960’s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and their first victims were electric trains.They wanted them to perform faster and more efficiently.So, is hacking always bad? Not really.It only depends on how to use it.But it wasn’t until a group of these hackers decided to exert their knowledge in the computer mainframes of the MIT.

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